Reading Agency calendar entries: South East

Jim Keeble available for author events

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:55:41 +0000

Jim Keeble is an acclaimed novelist and scriptwriter. He is currently working on the BBC series Silent Witness. His new novel The Happy Numbers of Julius Miles is about the impossibility of being a modern dad and the pressure of the 'have-it-all' society.
For more information about this book, you can click on:
http://www.almabooks.com/the-happy-numbers-of-julius-miles-p-387-book.html
To set up an event with Jim please contact eminervini@almabooks.com

Danny Miller available for events

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:54:00 +0000

The second book in the Vince Treadwell series, The Gilded Edge follows the straight-laced yet ambitious and handsome Detective Vince Treadwell. He is sent to investigate the seemingly unrelated murders of a playboy aristocrat from Belgravia and a young black nurse from the wrong side of town. We follow Treadwell to the illegal drinking dens of Notting Hill run by self-styled Black Power leader, Michael X; the nightclubs of Soho owned by the legendary gangster, Billy Hill; and the exclusive gaming tables of the Montcler Club in Berkeley Square, where the blue-bloods and power players of England gamble thousands on their turn of a card. But as Vince Treadwell digs deeper he finds himself not only embroiled with a beautiful society girl, Isabel Saxmore-Blaine, but a world of espionage and corruption where the underworld mixes easily with the aristocracy, and no one is innocent.

jamie@constablerobinson.com

James Craig available for events

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:23:21 +0000

Jake Haggar, barely six years old has been kidnapped by his father who is threatening to sell the boy to a child trafficking ring. Carlyle has to get him back. It's not his case but it is his problem- it was his fault Jake was taken in the first place.
Meanwhile, Carlyle has his own caseload to deal with including the murder of Agatha Mills. Her husband, Henry has been arrested for her murder but his explanation is so outlandish that Carlyle wonders if it may just be true. Agatha is the sister of William Pettigrew, a priest killed in Chile during the fascist coup in 1973 and after 30 years of campaigning, and was about to see his killer brought to justice.

Carlyle is also asked to help television reporter Rosanna Snowdon, who fears she is being stalked by a demented fan.

Contact: jamie@constablerobinson.com

Celebrate LGBT History Month in Havering

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:05:39 +0000

Havering Libraries celebrate LGB History Month 2012

Catherine Hall - Author Talk
Catherine Hall's first novel was Days of Grace, Catherine was selected by Waterstone's as one of their 10 'New Voices' and by Amazon as one of their 'Rising Stars'.
'The Proof of Love', published in 2011, won The Green Carnation Prize for LGBT writing,
Come along and contribute ideas for more library events for the LGB community.

Monday 13th February at Romford Library
7pm -8pm, Meeting Room,
Romford Library, St Edwards Way, Romford RM1 3AR
FREE EVENT, Everybody welcome.
For more information, please email: jacky.logan@havering.gov.uk or call the library on 01708 432389

DJ Connell visits Deal Library, Sat 11 Feb 2012, 2-3 pm

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:44:52 +0000

February is national LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual) History Month and to help us celebrate, DJ Connell has agreed to join us. Come along to a relaxed talk which promises to be lively, witty and interesting. DJ Connell, author of Julian Corkle is a Filthy Liar, will talk about her writing and her recently published novel, Sherry Cracker Gets Normal.

Tickets are FREE from Deal Library 08458 247200 but booking is recommended.

DJ Connell visits Margate Library, Sat 11 Feb 2012, 11-12 noon

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:43:05 +0000

Tickets are free from Margate Library, 08458 247200, but booking is recommended.

Lesley Pearse visits Sevenoaks Library

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:10:02 +0000

Lesley Pearse, bestselling author, visits Sevenoaks Library to talk about her latest novel,The Promise. For details see
http://www.whatsoninkentlocal.com/all/details/27988/ or ring Sevenoaks Library 08458 247200.

Lesley Pearse visits Dartford

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:06:24 +0000

Lesley Pearse, bestselling author, visits The Mick Jagger Centre, Dartford. Lesley will discuss her latest novel, The Promise. Tickets £3 please contact http://www.themickjaggercentre.com/home.aspx
01322 291100 or Dartford Library 08458 247200.

Brilliance by Anthony McCarten

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:40:24 +0000

Brilliance deals with the life of the inventor Thomas Alva Edison, who - short of money - is captivated by the charismatic figure of J.P. Morgan, the 'world's banker'. He accepts Morgan's offer of almost unlimited cash in return for helping him change the way the world does business. In the process, Edison sees himself descend from being a godlike inventor of electric light to being complicit in the invention of the electric chair. This book is very topical and chimes in with the Wall Street and St Paul's anti-capitalist 'occupy movement'.

Email Elisabetta Minervini (eminervini@almabooks.com) if you are interested in proofs for your reading group (Only 8 sets of 5 available) or if you would like Anthony to visit your library.

Continue reading here - http://www.almabooks.com/brilliance-p-385-book.html

Lynn Shepherd author of Tom-All-Alone's

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:18:03 +0000

Lynn Shepherd is the author of the captivating Tom-All-Alone's, a reimagining of Dickens masterpiece and first English detective story- Bleak House. With the bicentenary of Dickens birth on the 7 February, Lynn is available for talks, workshops, reading group sessions and readers' days.

Tom-All-Alone's aims to craft something that would not only be a compelling 'literary murder mystery' in its own right, but also a creative response to the events and themes of Dickens' text. Tom-All-Alone's was actually the original title of Dickens Bleak House.

The story of Tom-All-Alone's runs parallel to Dickens, and his characters populate her own literary landscape, whether as principal protagonists, like the lawyer Tulkinghorn and Inspector Bucket, or mere bystanders seen or overheard in London's crowded dining-houses, pubs, and omnibuses. Through the eyes of her young detective, Charles Maddox, we see these familiar episodes and characters from a new angle, and find answers to questions that Bleak House left unanswered.

if you would like Lynn to visit your library please contact Emily Burns: emily@constablerobinson.com.

Author Available: Trilby Kent, Smoke Portrait

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:57:57 +0000

Trilby Kent is available for library events, reading groups sessions and readers' days. Children aged 10+. Trilby would also be happy to talk to classes of students.

To set up an event, please contact eminervini@almabooks.com and for more info about the book, please visit http://www.almabooks.com/stones-for-my-father-p-384-book.html

Stones for My Father deals with the second Boer war, and gives quite an uncompromisingly critical appraisal of the English repression of the Boers at the beginning of the twentieth century. It's the story of a young girl and of his family, and their trials as they are pushed away from their farm and imprisoned in a concentration camp.
The author is a descendant of the Boer war hero Danie Theron.

The Magical Detectives and the Forbidden Spell

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:30:08 +0000

The second book in the thrilling Magical Detectives series is out this month. Author, Brian Keaney, is available for author events.

In a locked museum in the middle of the night a thief appears from nowhere, steals a priceless clay tablet from Ancient Babylon and then disappears. In the village of Harford a senior British diplomat is found strangled in his bed. And in the sleepy little town of Bridlington Chawley an internationally-famous hypnotist knocks on the door of Spinoza's Second-Hand Bookshop.

What is the connection between these three events? That's the mystery that the Magical Detectives have to solve.

The Magical Detectives and the Forbidden Spell is the second book in the Magical Detective Agency series. The first book has been chosen for the Reading Agency's Summer Reading Challenge

For more information, or to orgnise an event, please contact Sarah Bennett

Author wanted for Black history month october 2011

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:00:03 +0000

The brand new Woolwich Centre Library in the London borough of Greenwich will be dedicating the languages section to the late Cllr Kanta Patel during Black history month. We are looking for a gujerati author to give a talk.

Please contact sarah.davis@greenwich.gov.uk for details.

Chichester Festivities and Chi Fest 17th June - 10th July 2011

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 23:00:59 +0000

Chichester Library is looking for enthusiastic authors to speak at events for the Chichester Festivities and Chi Fest, which is for a week before the Festivities start. The festivities are a very popular literary and arts festival, drawing many big acts and many people to the city and Chichester library would like to celebrate the festivities by holding a few authors events with stand alone authors or panels of authors.

For more information about the festivities please see the website below or contact me if you have any queries.

http://www.chifest.org.uk/

Author available: Trilby Kent, "Smoke Portrait"

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:54:53 +0000

Trilby Kent, author of Smoke Portrait is available for events. Smoke Portrait is a universal story of love, loss and appearances.

A young woman writes letters to a prison inmate abroad as a charitable task - these letters, however, get misdirected to a teenager who pretends to be the prisoner and who has a very troubled situation at home. This is the start of a romantic friendship between the correspondents where each one wants the other one to believe they are someone else - a correspondence which will help them through some of the most challenging years of the past century.

To set up an event with Trilby please contact eminervini@almabooks.com and for more info on Trilby and her new book, please visit
http://www.almabooks.com/smoke-portrait-p-359-book.html